Name
Juan de Orduña
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1900-12-26
Deathday
1974-02-02 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Madrid, Spain
Biography
Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw (Madrid, December 27, 1900-id., February 3, 1974) was a Spanish film director and actor.
Born into a family of aristocrats, he studied law. His artistic career as an actor began in the twenties, joining Emilio Thuiller's theater company. In the following years he took part in numerous silent plays. He participated as a leading actor in the first sound film of Spanish cinema, El misterio de la Puerta del Sol (1929). After the arrival of sound films, his presence in front of the camera became less frequent, although he would still participate in films of certain renown such as Nobleza baturra (1935), by Florián Rey.
His career as a director stood out especially in the decade following the end of the Spanish Civil War, when he became one of the most prolific filmmakers of the time and also one of the public's favorites.
Known For
5.6
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary...
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Susana is an unappreciated, naive and somewhat clumsy orphan who has lived since she was a...
5.3
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, f...
5.8
A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her sub...
3.3
Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and...
- 1930 The Mystery of Puerta del Sol as Pompeyo Pimpollo
- 1926 Pilar Guerra as Luciano
- 1935 Nobleza baturra as Sebastián
- 1936 El cura de aldea as Diego Núñez
- 2022 La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961) as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 1983 Sábado, sabadete
- 1925 La casa de la Troya as Augusto
- 1924 The Unruly Girl as Felipe
- 1942 Flora y Mariana as Gerardo
- 1972 To the Devil, with Love as Vigilante del faro
- 1943 Fin de curso as Self (uncredited)
- 1940 Leyenda rota as José María
- 1927 Rocío Dalbaicín
- 1925 The Girl
- 1928 An Adventure Worth a Movie
- 1927 Students and Seamstresses
- 1955 Zalacaín el aventurero as (no acreditado)
- 1939 Ya viene el cortejo… as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1926 Boy as Le vicomte de Brazza dit Boy
- Soon La gitanilla as Andresillo / Don Juan de Cárcamo
